[Xastir] Archaic default map

[Hal Mueller]

I was just going to suggest Natural Earth. Their smallest scale (1:110m) weighs in at about 200 KB for country boundaries only, as a zipped shapefile.. As a bonus, a DBFAWK that works with the smallest scale stuff should also work fine for someone who wants to download the large scale version (1:10m).

https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/ <https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/> describes the small scale version. The data is published as public domain: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/ <https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/>

Hal

> On Jul 29, 2019, at 11:00 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:51:56PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kilo5dat at gmail.com <mailto:kilo5dat at gmail.com>> flavor, containing:
>> Tiles require either Imagemagick or GraphicsMagick, and as Tom already
>> stated that's not desirable for a minimum install of Xastir.
> 
> Yeah, but his follow-up appears to be volunteering to try to find a shapefile
> representation of the OSM data from which the Stamen tiles are generated.
> So long as the license is consistent (it may not be) that is helpful.
> 
> We're also looking at naturalearth's shapefiles, which include a relatively
> small (750k or so), fairly rough map that could be suitable.  
> 
> We're not looking to have a default map that's high quality and beautiful,
> just one that isn't 30 years out of date.  We already have a low quality
> and ugly map, it's just also wrong.  It's about 250k.
> 
> If a user wants a GOOD map, they're still going to have to do some work,
> either by building Xastir with support for on-line maps, or by finding 
> more detailed local maps that suit their specific needs.  The naturalearth
> maps include much more detailed shapefiles that could be such a choice, but
> they're way too large to be part of the Xastir distribution.
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 3:05 AM Hal Mueller <hal at seanet.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Roughly what file size are we targeting? The Stamen stuff is based on Open
>>> Street Map. I think the country level data will be fairly easy to extract
>>> from OSM, or (more likely) already exists. If I see a way through I???ll hop
>>> over to github and self assign.
>>> 
>>> Hal
>>> N3YX
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 28, 2019, at 11:27 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Only vector maps need apply, specifically shapefile.  Anything else
>>> requires
>>>> too many TPLs, and that would be too big a "minimum" install.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 11:25:59PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
>>> collision of the <hal at seanet.com> flavor, containing:
>>>>> Perhaps a joined together version of tiles at
>>> http://maps.stamen.com/toner/#5/38.221/17.402? What pixel size is
>>> preferred? How much space can it consume?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hal
>>>>> N3YX
>>> 
>>> 
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